Tanya Lukin Linklater originates from the Native Villages of Port Lions and Afognak in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska. Based in Northern Ontario, Lukin Linklater’s practice encompasses performance art, choreography, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her work often centres themes of Indigenous dance, visual art lineages, weather, structures of sustenance, and embodied inquiry. Lukin Linklater’s work has been shown extensively nationally, including at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2023); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2022); Oakville Galleries (2022); and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2022), as well an internationally in group exhibitions, including the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2023); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2020). Lukin Linklater holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (2023), a Master’s of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a BA from Stanford University (1998). She is the recipient of various art awards and is a published writer; her first book of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks (2022).
Tanya Lukin Linklater
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